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SHIRT.

No. 415,906. Patented Nov. 26, 1889.

N. PETERS, Phowmhu m hun Washinglnn. DC.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE D. EIGHMIE, ()FNElV YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,908, dated November 26, 1889. Application filed October 26, 1889. Serial No. 328,281. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. EIGHMIE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented tion of the shirt made in accordance with my invention, the lower portion broken off. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same, taken on the line a" 00, looking downward, with the stud removed and the overlapping meeting edge of the bosom slightly raised for clear illustration.

The body of the shirt is composed of two pieces of fabric-the front A and the back B-joined together at the sides, as at s. The back B is open, as at b, from its upper edge downward to a point nearly opposite to where the lower end of the bosom is to come, as is usual in open-back shirts.

Instead of cutting out a portion of the front A of the shirt-body for the insertion of the bosom, I extend said front piece A clear across the breast portion of the shirt, from one side seam s to the other, as seen in Fig. 2.

O represents the bosom, which is open in front, as at c. It is secured to the body of the shirt at or near its outer edge and along its underla-pping meeting edge it, its overlapping meeting edge 0 being left free, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The overlapping and underlapping edges are secured together at the bottom by a stitched eyelet e, which is an easily-made and very secure fastening; and all the edges of the bosom,

save the one to which the neckband is attached, are provided with a binding 2. for stiffening them.

The shirt is provided with any desired number of stud or button holes 7z,which pass through both the overlapping and underlapping portions of the bosom,and also through the body of the shirt, as seen in Fig. 2.

A shirt made in accordance with my invention presents several important advantages over an open-front shirtof the usual construction, especially when a fine dressshirt is required. For instance, first, in changing an open-back shirt and a high-cut vest for this open-front shirt and a low-cut vest the wearer will not be liable to take cold, for the reason that that portion of the body of the shirt which extends across the chest is rendered practically air-tight by the starch in the laundrying of the bosom, and thus serves as a chest-protector; secondly, it affords pockets for the loose end of the neckscarf and for a handkerchief or the like without exposing the undershirt to view, and, thirdly, the bosom will not be so readily soiled by the perspiration of the body in hot weather when light undershirts are worn, as would be the case were the shirt constructed in any of the ordinary ways.

It is to be understood that I regard it as of my invention whether the front of the shirtbody he made in one piece and the bosom attached thereto, or whether the breast portion of the shirt-body be cut out and the cut-out part closed by a separate piece, to which the bosom may be attached, or whether the bosom be attached to a re-enforce piece which may be placed over the front of the shirt-body, as the gist of the invention resides in having the shirt-body closed over the chest and the bosom attached thereto in the manner above described, the term body portion herein used not being restricted to the single back and front pieces of the body.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An open-back shirt whose body portion is closed over the chest, provided with an open bosom Which is secured at or near its outer edge and along its underlapping meeting edge to the shirt-body, the overlapping meeting edge of the bosom being; left free, substa-ntially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix m y signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE D. EIGH-MIE.

Vitnesses:

WM. HUNTER MYERs, ALBERT SPEIDEN. 

